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257 real Post-UTME Screening questions from 2005 to 2012, every one with a worked solution. Practise them timed, on the web, on Android, or offline on desktop.

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257
Years covered
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Questions per paper
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Time allowed
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Sample Use of English (Law-Arts) questions, answered.

Taken straight from the papers below — one from each of the most recent years, with the answer marked and the reasoning written out.

PUTME Use of English (Law-Arts) 2012 · Question 1
What does the author mean by referring to marriage as an institution? It means that marriage is a
  1. school
  2. custom — correct answer
  3. society
  4. history
Worked solution
An institution in this sense is an established custom or practice of a society, so marriage is described as a long-established custom.
PUTME Use of English (Law-Arts) 2011 · Question 1
The central argument of this passage is that
  1. irrational acts by any leader could be a sign of derangement — correct answer
  2. the constitution provides a means of dealing with a deranged leader
  3. a mad man is not less intelligent than people with sound mind
  4. a criminal could conduct himself like any other fellow
Worked solution
The whole passage builds up the case that a leader's irrational and delusional acts (e.g. substituting himself for the totality or his will for the constitution) are signs of mental derangement; the constitutional remedy is only a consequence of that argument.
PUTME Use of English (Law-Arts) 2010 · Question 1
How did the writer get the piece he read?
  1. By picking up a novel
  2. By going through his store of old newspapers — correct answer
  3. By reading a textbook
  4. By chatting with a friend
Worked solution
He says he "started rummaging through my archives" and "stumbled on this piece written in July, 2008", i.e. he found it in his store of old papers.
PUTME Use of English (Law-Arts) 2009 · Question 1
To leave the country "for good" means leaving the country
  1. unexpectedly
  2. for better opportunities
  3. permanently — correct answer
  4. now that things are not very good
Worked solution
"For good" is an idiom meaning for ever or permanently, so leaving the country "for good" means leaving it permanently.
PUTME Use of English (Law-Arts) 2008 · Question 1
I was warned against his *erratic* nature.
  1. Impolite
  2. Unpredictable — correct answer
  3. Insane
  4. Unusual
Worked solution
'Erratic' means irregular and inconsistent in behaviour, i.e. unpredictable.
Every paper we hold

PUTME Use of English (Law-Arts), year by year.

2012
35 questions
2011
38 questions
2010
30 questions
2009
30 questions
2008
30 questions
2007
15 questions
2006
40 questions
2005
39 questions
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How PUTME Use of English (Law-Arts) is set.

Post-UTME Screening sets 40 questions in Use of English (Law-Arts), answered in 40 minutes — about 60 seconds a question. Practising against that clock is the part most candidates skip, and it is the part that costs marks.

We hold 257 published Use of English (Law-Arts) questions spanning 2005 to 2012. You can practise any single year’s paper, or sit a full timed mock that mirrors the real interface — the navigator, the flags and the auto-submit included.

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